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Meanings of wingspan in English
Distance from the tip of one limb such as an arm or wing to the tip of the paired limb, or analogically the same measure for airplane wings.
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Examples for "span"
Examples for "span"
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These so-called 'news talk shows' have the attention span of a gerbil.
2
Yet, how quickly we forget extreme events as the media attention-span wanes.
3
In both cases, however, the projections span a wide range of possibilities.
4
The SEC and DOJ probes span the securities industry, the company said.
5
However, they couldn't brainwash him because his attention span was too short.
1
The fog thickened, till the world drowned in red an armspan all around.
2
Water churned black and frothing an armspan from their feet.
3
She indicated an armspan, flashlight flickering across the ceiling and, for a moment, out into the Main Junction.
Usage of wingspan in English
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The gently bowed form also hides a few inches from its wingspan.
2
One contained a perfectly preserved moth with a wingspan over four inches.
3
With a 140-foot wingspan, it's the largest all-carbon composite aircraft ever built.
4
Their bodies were huge, with a wingspan of five feet or more.
5
Around the summit glides an Andean condor, never flapping its 11-foot wingspan.
6
It looks like a stingray and has a wingspan of 3 feet.
7
The American then used his mighty 'wingspan' to forge ahead into clear water.
8
Get this one, not the similar camo version with a slightly smaller wingspan.
9
The ScanEagle is a relatively small UAV with a 10-foot wingspan.
10
He is lanky with a basketball player's wingspan and huge hands.
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Does this wingspan produce enough lift to keep the guy up?
12
Jack tilted his head in return, and the owl spread its wingspan wide.
13
He looked, he supposed, like a small silly bat with an oversize wingspan.
14
Their large wingspan gives them greater lift and reduces the power needed for flight.
15
A positive ape index-when your wingspan is longer than your height-generallyhelps with climbing.
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The wingspan of his arms is longer than his height.
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